Goosegrass
("Compendium Supplements")
Synonyms: Qianqiantao, Aizaicao, Renba ("Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine"), muzicao ("Guangxi Chinese Veterinary Medicinal Plants"), Newton grass, duck foot grass ("Southern Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine"), millet grass, pheasant claw, millet grass ("Southern Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine") "Eastern Fujian Materia Medica"), Biancao, Shuiqicao ("Jiangxi Folk Herbal Prescriptions"), hyacinth grass, cricket grass, Qianjin grass ("Commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Shanghai"), Jizicao ("Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine").
The source is the whole grass with roots of the grass plant Goosegrass.
Plant form: Goosegrass
Annual herb, 15 to 90 cm tall. The fibrous roots are thin and dense. The stems are clustered, erect or bent at the base. The leaves are flat or curled, up to 15 cm long and 3-5 mm wide, hairless or with verrucous pubescence on the surface; the leaf sheath is flattened, ridged, hairless or sparsely warty, and the mouth is sometimes pubescent; The tongue is about 1 mm long. Spikes are 3 to 10 cm long and 3 to 5 mm wide, often with several fingers arranged (rarely 2) at the top of the stem; spikelets have 3 to 6 flowers, 4 to 7 mm long and 2 mm wide. ~3 mm; glume-lanceolate, the first glume is 1.5~2 mm long, the second glume is 2~3 mm long; the first lemma is 3~3.5 mm long, with narrow wings on the ridge; seeds are oblong, subtriangular , about 1.5 mm long, with obvious wavy wrinkles. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to October.
Commonly found in wilderness and desolate places. Distributed throughout the country.
Harvest in August or September, wash, dry and cut.
Nature and flavor ① "Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine": "Sweet, flat, non-toxic."
② "Mindong Materia Medica": "Sweet and light, cool in nature."
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Meridian Return ① "Baicaojing": "Enter the Liver Meridian."
② "Mindong Materia Medica": "Enter the Lung and Stomach Meridians."
Function It mainly treats heat-clearing and dampness-removing. It can be used to treat summer fever, convulsions, jaundice, dysentery, gonorrhea, and dysuria in children; it can also prevent and treat Japanese encephalitis.
① "Baicao Jing": "Promotes blood circulation and increases strength."
② "Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine": "Diuretic, clears heat, eliminates hernia."
③ "Compilation of Commonly Used Folk Herbal Medicines": "Strengthens bones and muscles, cures spermatorrhea."
④ "Mindong Materia Medica": "Cures infantile panic, stone stranguria, waist contusion, intestinal wind, bleeding, nausea, Wheezing and coughing. "
⑤ "Shanghai Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Invigorate blood and nourish qi. Treat fatigue and tuberculosis."
Usage and dosage: Oral decoction, 3 to 5 qian. (1 to 3 taels if fresh); or pound into juice.
Prescription ① Treat high fever, cramps and coma: 4 liang of fresh beef tendon, 3 bowls of water, 1 bowl of stew, a little salt, and consume within 12 hours. ("Eastern Fujian Materia Medica")
②Cure jaundice, labor injuries, and fistula: wash the root of the herb to remove the mud, steam and heat the belly of the black-bone hen, and remove the grass-fed chicken. ("Compendium Supplement")
③Cure damp-heat jaundice: 2 liang of fresh beef tendon and 1 liang of mountain sesame, decoct in water and take. (Jiangxi "Handbook of Herbal Medicine")
④Cure dysentery: 1 to 2 liang of beef tendon, decoction and mixed with black sugar, take twice a day. ("Mindong Materia Medica")
⑤ To treat heat knot, abdominal distension and difficulty in urination in children: 2 liang of fresh beef tendon root, add water and boil into a bowl, divide into three times and take before meals. ("Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine")
⑥Treatment of summer fever: 2 liang of fresh beef tendon, decoction in water and take. ("Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine")
⑦Cure turbid stranguria: 2 liang of fresh beef tendon. Decoction in water. ("Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine")
⑧Treatment of lower back pain: one or two each of beef tendon and loofah, stewed in wine and taken. ("Mindong Materia Medica")
⑨Cure hernia: 4 liang of fresh beef tendon root, 14 dried lychees, add half and half of rice wine and water, simmer for one hour, take before meals, twice a day. ("Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine")
⑩ To treat the initial onset of mastitis, redness, swelling, heat and pain: take one or two heads of beef tendon, one or two heads of dandelion, and one boiled egg. And gently rub the grass residue into the affected area. ("Southern Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine")
⑾Prevention of Japanese encephalitis: 2 to 4 liang of fresh goosegrass, decocted in water instead of tea. ("Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine")
Clinical application in the prevention and treatment of Japanese encephalitis
For prevention, take 1 tael of fresh grass a day, decoct it once, and take it for 3 days; the interval is 10 day, and then take it for 3 days; or 2 to 4 taels a day, decoction once, and take it for 3 to 5 days. Among 184,130 people who took preventive medicine, only 2 cases became ill, and the incidence rate was 0.91/100,000, which was the same as that in the past 6 years. The incidence rate was the lowest in 1 year. For treatment, use 1 to 3 taels of hay every day, wash it and add water to thickly boil it into 50 to 100 ml, take it three times, and a course of treatment lasts for 7 to 10 days. This was used as the main drug to treat 27 cases. Except for 2 cases that died, the rest were cured. The number of days required for the body temperature to drop to normal is as short as 1 day and as long as 12 days. The average fever reduction time for severe cases is 3.2 days. A few people have mild and short-lived back pain, diarrhea, headache, nausea, vomiting and other reactions after taking the medicine, but no adverse effects on the blood and kidneys are found. (Goosegrass used clinically is sometimes mixed with sage millet of the same family.) Reminder: Goosegrass This herbal medicine comes from the Internet. Please follow your doctor's advice before use.